ClarÃn, an Argentine daily newspaper, has the largest circulation within Spanish-speaking countries and is the world's eighth largest newspaper. As with newspapers worldwide, ClarÃn is experiencing readership declines among the younger audience segments. Because the younger generation is increasingly less interested in traditional newspapers, ClarÃn is poised to deliver news and information in new and different ways. The changes require a complete strategic development which will service the market over the next ten years. The client and agency implemented a working model integrating research into the corporate decision board and actively involving several areas of the company, research agency and a strategic consultant in a continuous process. This paper summarizes the structure of the working methodology for building a new editorial strategy to be used in both the short and long term.
This paper is based on the recent extreme political and economic uncertainty in Argentina and which presented an opportunity to study the relationship between the public and the media mix in this situation.Based on research conducted by D'Alessio IROL, the paper finds the positioning of the media changes in a context of crisis: some increase their audience while others lose audiences, and yet others must reinvent themselves in order to survive.